Foreign News: The Plan and the Spirit

Benign, witty Sir William Henry Beveridge by last week was second only
to Winston Churchill as Britain's most popular man. Britons had bought
more than 200,000 full texts of his plan for post-war social security.
The Ministry of Information was bringing out a threepenny Beveridge
Report in Brief and every Army officer was to be supplied with this
brief for the instruction of rankers. Sir William's Plan had become so
popular with the people that the political parties were falling over
each other proclaiming its principles their own: